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The Ultimate Water Enhancer

by seasoned_geek

The water additives market is pretty huge now. You can have anything from premeasured powder “sticks” to highly concentrated drops if you don’t want to buy preflavored water. Flavor enhancers are now marketing themselves as energy drinks adding multiple B vitamins and in many cases caffeine. Some even add vitamins C & E with antioxidants to improve their health marketing. What we don’t have is the ultimate enhancer. Nicotine. Think about it. Nicotine isn’t the … The Ultimate Water EnhancerRead more

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Ethanol Needs to Learn From Wine

by seasoned_geek

As you get older in life, you begin to appreciate the importance of being a well rounded individual. Though it may sound counter intuitive, a well rounded individual won’t slide down a slope covered with marketing spin (a.k.a. bullshit.)  Take the “marketing spin” being hurled by all sides in the current ethanol debate. I’ve been watching it for a while and the only real difference I see is the size of the shovel being used. … Ethanol Needs to Learn From WineRead more

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Windows 8 – Vista Part Deux

by seasoned_geek

It is difficult for me to not pick up the phone these days and make an “I told you so” call to a past client. This guy was absolutely baptized by Microsoft. We were developing some software on Linux and I cannot tell you the number of times I heard “this would take me 15 minutes in DOT NET.” Naturally I responded “it would run on only one machine, yours, the last Windows user in … Windows 8 – Vista Part DeuxRead more

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The Fastest Way to Boost E-85 Consumption

by seasoned_geek

Quite honestly I get tired of hearing government officials spout about how we need to cut our dependency on foreign oil and boost renewable fuels consumption. I get tired of hearing about it because all they ever do is reach up their ass to the elbow and pull out a “target.” They then expect everybody to “just do it.” I’m also quite pissed about the automobile company bail out. Yes, I’d say I’m even more … The Fastest Way to Boost E-85 ConsumptionRead more